Over a crore in cash deposited in Jharkhand IAS officer Pooja Singhal’s account, says ED
India Today
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Sunday that over a crore in cash was deposited in the account of Jharkhand IAS officer Pooja Singhal.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday said that IAS Pooja Singhal and her husband received cash deposits totaling Rs 1.43 crore when she was charged with irregularities while serving as District Magistrate (DM) in various districts across the state.
The federal agency (ED) also informed a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Ranchi that the IAS officer allegedly transferred Rs 16.57 lakh from her personal account to those controlled or owned by her Chartered Accountant (CA), Suman Kumar.
Suman Kumar was arrested on Saturday for alleged money laundering in connection with an MGNREGA money fraud case.
The Enforcement Directorate arrested Kumar in Ranchi on May 6 after conducting multi-city raids against him, Pooja Singhal, her businessman husband, Abhishek Jha, and others. The special court then sent Kumar to ED custody till May 11.
The ED said it seized over Rs 17.79 crore in cash from the chartered accountant's home and office.
According to the agency, the total cash seized following these raids is Rs 19.31 crore, with a further seizure made from another location in Ranchi.
Seeking Kumar's custody, the agency stated in its remand note that the CA was "withholding" information about the source of the cash seized from his home and was not disclosing the "actual owner" of the cash.
